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  • Lend your money and lose your friend. (To Give One's Enemy a Wife and Lose One's Soldiers As Well) In alliance with Sun Quan, Liu Bei defeated Cao Cao at the Red Cliff, and subsequently occupied Jingzhou.
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  • Lu Ji: He Concealed Oranges To Present To His Mother In the later Han dynasty there lived a certain Lu Ji(陆绩), also called Gongji. When he was six, he went to Jiujiang (九江, in Jiangxi province), where he met General Yuan Shu. Shu brought...

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  • Xiong You Cheng Zhu (Having a R...
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